Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists After the Great War Volume 17

by Mark Connelly

Book Overview

Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years following the Armistice.Mark Connelly's definitive and engaging study of the former Western Front examines how different and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228011906
• ISBN13: 9780228011903
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"